What’s an expression

involving colors?
Join a classmate and use
this activity to check
your color corpus!
What’s a useful
expression there?

COLOR TALK 1
 • Review color expressions
to talk about different
celebrations around the
world
B1.5 (Vocabulary / speaking)

Day 16 • Use paraphrasing to

describe ideas and expand
on them
(Tip / Speaking)
 COLOR
TALK 2
Let’s explore the
expressions we have
just checked.
Use this activity to talk
to your classmates and
practice new
vocabulary items!
 SOME COLOR FACTS
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 TOPIC
PREVIEW
What do these two places
have in common?
Read the passage. Did you
know about the facts
mentioned there?
What’s the main idea in
each of the paragraphs?
TOPIC PREVIEW
 USING YOUR OWN WORDS
The best way to summarize an idea and expand your speaking
fluency is paraphrasing.
Step One: Identify the main idea of the paragraph:

Fast food restaurants use colors like

Step Two: Use your own
yellow or orange because they reflect
words to describe the
same idea: energy and fast attention to
customers.
 USING YOUR OWN WORDS
The best way to summarize an idea and expand your speaking
fluency is paraphrasing.
Step One: Identify the main idea of the paragraph:

Colors like orange or yellow can be

Step Two: Use your own
considered happy colors, and with
words to describe the
same idea: them, people feel confident whenever
they choose a food to eat.
 LET’S RECAP!
1. In your own words, tell your partner what “paraphrasing”
is
2. Share your ideas out loud with the class

Are you ready to continue

paraphrasing?
STRATEGY
PRACTICE
You were previously added to a Whatsapp
group.

(1) Read the passage there and identify

the main ideas in each paragraph.

(2) Then, summarize each main idea using

your own words!

(3) Be ready to describe the article you

read by activating the strategy!
 PAIR-ASSESSMENT
• Get in pairs
• Evaluate your partner taking into account the following
criteria:

From 1-5, did your partner…

- follow each of the steps from the strategy?
- paraphrase the article using his/her own words?
- have fluency when speaking?

• Be ready to give feedback.

 LET’S CHECK VOCABULARY
Use the items in the green Celebrations are an important part of people’s life. Take Christmas in
box to complete the Colombia first. Even if families (1) are in the red, they love to buy
article. decoration and gifts. In fact, fireworks are forbidden, but people go
and buy them in the (2) black market!
Do not forget to conjugate
the verbs accordingly! Potlatches are a famous celebration in Alaska. In them, people
invited rival families, and they destroyed their own things, furniture,
boats, everything. This made their rivals go (3) green with envy,
(v) Feel blue surprisingly! Some time later, the other family invited them back
(exp) Green with envy and destroyed even more things, which made all people (4) see red,
(n) Black market though it was a symbol of wealth and status.
(n) Powder
We can conclude that celebrations help people not to (5) feel blue.
(v) Be in the red In the case of the carnivals in Pasto, people attack each other with
(v) Cover (6) powder and streets (7) are covered with black and white paint,
(v) See red but that makes people forget about their problems!
HOMEWORK
1. Complete exercises 1 and 2, page 124.

2. Bring the final script of your video

(task). You will shoot the video at the
Colombo tomorrow!